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Book reviews
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Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
The True Gen - Denis Brian
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
The Sea — John Banville
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Film reviews
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Saturday, 27 May 2017
Last brief post from Israel with a few more pictures…
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Israel – Ben Gurion Airport, Day XVII (or something) I’m on my way back tonight and turned up at the airport a few hours early after being...
Thursday, 25 May 2017
I make it to the Western Wall along with several thousand young Jewish folk celebrating their country’s survival. As for becoming a master at bartering, I’m not even off the starting block, but at least my stepmother gets her crucifix (made of olive wood with just a dash of ‘holy sand’)
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Israel – Day 3: Jerusalem Well, actually that was yesterday, and I am confusing myself. If I arrived at 19.30 on Monday and got to my hote...
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
. . . . and a plate of hummus to end the day. You can't do better than that
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Israel – Day 2: Caesarea Best news of the day is that I got my car after all, which means I don’t quite have to curtail my plans as I thou...
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
My trip to Jerusalem (home of the legendary Jesus Christ ©Harry Harris) and other matters. Buses, for example
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Israel – Day 1: Vital Hotel, Tel Aviv The dateline might surprise you, but it shouldn’t. As part of my welcome drive to expand my mind and...
Friday, 19 May 2017
Getting the lowdown on human frailty - why we are all suckers for wanting to teach the world to sing (and making Coca Cola even wealthier). But who cares: it's art
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I’ve often thought that if I were to have my time all over again, I’d have tried for a job in advertising and marketing, or ‘advertising/mar...
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
As Sam Goldwyn observed ‘if they liked it once, they’ll love it twice’, so with little to entertain you with today, here’s a rerun – all the rage these days are reruns – of a previous blog entry about smut and double entendre
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I’ve nothing much to say today (did someone say ‘as always?’ Quiet at the back), but earlier this evening I was chatting to a guy at La Papp...
Saturday, 29 April 2017
Will it snow on June 23, 2018? Who knows? I don’t and neither do you. But there might certainly be stormy weather ahead for the EU
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I’ve tried, I really have. I’ve twice posted I’ve taken photos - irrelevant to current events our what? Couldn’t be more irrelevant - report...
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Some more pics. Busy? Me?
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Update 19/05/17: I thought I might add that these pictures, and many of the other pictures I take and occasionally publish here, are intende...
Monday, 17 April 2017
Rather curious behavour from a self-appointed beacon of free speech. Make up your own minds
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This might be of interest to some of you. I think it speaks for itself. You do sometimes wonder what is going on at the Guardian. After I ...
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Friday, 14 April 2017
A few photos, just for the craic
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All of these were taken on my iPhone, then subsequently dicked around with to a greater or lesser extent, mainly cropping. PS Bearing in m...
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